{"id":490383,"date":"2026-02-25T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:22:09","slug":"real-housewives-star-mary-cosbys-son-robert-cosby-jr-dies-at-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490383\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Real Housewives&#8217; star Mary Cosby&#8217;s son Robert Cosby Jr. dies at 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Robert Cosby Jr., the son of &#8220;The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City&#8221; star Mary Cosby, has died at 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed Cosby Jr.&#8217;s death to ABC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said they responded to a call for an overdose on Monday at an address associated with someone matching Cosby Jr.&#8217;s name and age in Salt Lake City, which turned into a death investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mary Cosby appears as a guest on &quot;Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.&quot;\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18650473_mary-cosby-img.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Cosby appears as a guest on &#8220;Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by: Charles Sykes\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The police department did not share a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bravo host Andy Cohen addressed the news on social media, writing, &#8220;Devastatingly sad news out of SLC. This is every parent&#8217;s worst nightmare. My heart is broken for Mary, and I am sending all my love to her and Robert Sr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Cosby Jr., the son of &#8220;The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City&#8221; star Mary Cosby, has died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[224949,9257,4,450,451,6377,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-490383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-224949","tag-abc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-national","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}